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ghettoperson wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

This, you idiot.

Oh yeah, and I missed Yale, boo hoo.

Those rankings are weird. Globally, Nottingham is about 40 places about Durham, however on the Times Good Universities Guide, Durham is 8 places above Nottingham.

League tables should all be taken with a pinch of salt... each newspaper compiles their own, and then the academic surveys released by institutions such as the University of Hong Kong are an entirely different matter. They all have an element of subjectivism I suppose, as well as relying on seemingly arbitrary statistics such as 'Student Satisfaction' polls and ratings. The Top20 shuffles around every year based on completely invisible forces... it's not as if any of the above-named Universities are losing their seat or going down the drain anyway . Could discuss 'rankings' all day but really, they're not all that important. After all, how many prospective employers are going to care about the student satisfaction or research-quality rating of a University? Sadly, I think the name-recognition and reputation speaks more than the actual matter of quality.

Uzique wrote:

ghettoperson wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

This, you idiot.

Oh yeah, and I missed Yale, boo hoo.

Those rankings are weird. Globally, Nottingham is about 40 places about Durham, however on the Times Good Universities Guide, Durham is 8 places above Nottingham.

League tables should all be taken with a pinch of salt... each newspaper compiles their own, and then the academic surveys released by institutions such as the University of Hong Kong are an entirely different matter. They all have an element of subjectivism I suppose, as well as relying on seemingly arbitrary statistics such as 'Student Satisfaction' polls and ratings. The Top20 shuffles around every year based on completely invisible forces... it's not as if any of the above-named Universities are losing their seat or going down the drain anyway . Could discuss 'rankings' all day but really, they're not all that important. After all, how many prospective employers are going to care about the student satisfaction or research-quality rating of a University? Sadly, I think the name-recognition and reputation speaks more than the actual matter of quality.

Yeah, I can't say I've ever taken them particularly seriously. I just figured they wouldn't be *that* different from each other, as they're presumably asking all the same questions.

Zimmer wrote:

This, you idiot.

Oh yeah, and I missed Yale, boo hoo.

LOOOOL imperial @ no.6 Somehow I think the guardian has a pro-UK bias. I study at imperial and I've visited some of my cousin's unis in the states (berkeley, UCSF) and imo they are a cut above. Saying that though I wouldn't trade my place here for anything in the world

Aries_37 wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

This, you idiot.

Oh yeah, and I missed Yale, boo hoo.

LOOOOL imperial @ no.6 Somehow I think the guardian has a pro-UK bias. I study at imperial and I've visited some of my cousin's unis in the states (berkeley, UCSF) and imo they are a cut above. Saying that though I wouldn't trade my place here for anything in the world

Imperial is awesome but it's hard to match-up to the huge funding and financial power that the American Universities have... things that come with $$$ like better facilities and research labs make a huge difference in the sciences I guess. Medicine at Imperial College, London is a decent Degree though - I don't know much about the sciences/medicine - but I'm guessing you probably couldn't do a lot better than Imperial for that choice.

Uzique wrote:

ghettoperson wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

This, you idiot.

Oh yeah, and I missed Yale, boo hoo.

Those rankings are weird. Globally, Nottingham is about 40 places about Durham, however on the Times Good Universities Guide, Durham is 8 places above Nottingham.

League tables should all be taken with a pinch of salt... each newspaper compiles their own, and then the academic surveys released by institutions such as the University of Hong Kong are an entirely different matter. They all have an element of subjectivism I suppose, as well as relying on seemingly arbitrary statistics such as 'Student Satisfaction' polls and ratings. The Top20 shuffles around every year based on completely invisible forces... it's not as if any of the above-named Universities are losing their seat or going down the drain anyway . Could discuss 'rankings' all day but really, they're not all that important. After all, how many prospective employers are going to care about the student satisfaction or research-quality rating of a University? Sadly, I think the name-recognition and reputation speaks more than the actual matter of quality.

TBH, that ranking is bull shit, British unis on there are in a different order to their own damn british uni guide

ALSO it depends a hell of a lot on what course you're doing.

Last edited by bennisboy (2008-11-22 16:08:50)

usmarine wrote:

FatherTed wrote:

i like uzique

figures

He is dunk 98% of the time, so his opinion doesn't matter.

FatherTed wrote:

i like uzique

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i like fatherted